Beverly Wright: She’s spent a lifetime sounding the alarm on environmental racism
Born close to a highly polluted area along the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana, Dr. Beverly Wright’s childhood experiences helped shape her research on the racial inequalities created by climate change. In 1992, she founded the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans. The organization, [...]
Jaime Harrison takes on old power in South Carolina, offers a ‘New South’ vision
Polls show incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, in a dead heat with his Democratic challenger, Jaime Harrison.
To live here, you have to fight: What organizing looks like in the South
In an op-ed published on the day of his funeral, Congressman John Lewis offered one final lesson. “Democracy is not a state,” he wrote. “It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.”
Reckon Creates master class series presents: Trace Barnett, The Bitter Socialite
If you grew up with a Southern grandma who lived out in the country, you probably remember jars of green beans, tomatoes, okra and more summer veggies lining the shelves tucked away in a dark corner of her house. Preserving fresh garden vegetables and fruits for leaner months has long [...]
How do you cover environmental issues in the South? Lyndsey Gilpin is charting a course
Lyndsey Gilpin founded Southerly in 2016 to fill a gap she saw in Southern journalism.